For the third of our blog posts for Open Access Week, we are looking at how open access as a means of social justice. This post was previously published on this blog in October 2018.

For the third of our blog posts for Open Access Week, we are looking at how open access as a means of social justice. This post was previously published on this blog in October 2018.
Background: open access in the humanities and social sciences
The Wellcome Trust is the only UK grant awarding body to have made open access mandatory for monographs.
For this third day of open access-related blog posts, we are looking at how open access can be of benefit to healthcare around the world.
“…it is only through removing the barriers to access to global research that health improvements can be accelerated. Open access delivers free access to millions of research articles for all with internet access regardless or institutional affiliation or national GDP.” (Chan et al, 2009)
For the second of our blog posts for Open Access Week, we are looking at how open access as a means of social justice.
“Everyone has the right freely to participate in the cultural life of the community, to enjoy the arts and to share in scientific advancement and its benefits” The Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1944): Article 27, section 1
This week (22nd-28th October 2018) is Open Access Week. As part of this, we are publishing a series of posts on this blog that are all about open access: what it is, why it’s important and what we can do with it. This first post is a short introduction to open access and why it’s important for the next REF (Research Excellence Framework – which you can find out more about here).
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